Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-11-03
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Bachelor cigars at 2. o.
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p. o.
Mike McGreevey made trip to Quick
vile Monday evening.
NJ. A Ketchnm. OF Otterbourne, called
at our Office last Friday.
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Store.
James NJ Stewardson was seen on our
streets on Wednesday.
County Commissioner W. G.. Baldwin
was in from Hale township last Thurs
day.
We are pleased to acknowledge q call
vile, Tuesday.
Mrs L. Carr, from Columbus. O.. is
visiting her brother, Capt. j. Il. McGon-
igal, this week.
a. J. Eddy, Esq, one Of the proprie-
tors of the Quickvlle Town Site, is
among us again.
Mrs J. B. McGoni gal is now at Wyan-
dotte, Kan, and is expected to return
sometime next week.
Geo. F. Kern returned from Nebraska
on Tuesday. He will be on his home
stead during the summer
b. Gurwell has moved with his family
INTO Colby. They will occupy the Gun
ningham property, on Fourth street.
Protracted meeting is being held at
Ouickvile under the direction of Mr..
HENLEY. Much interest in the meeting is
manifested
Henry Franklin of Wendell township
called on us Monday bringing with him
the list nominated by the republicans Of
that township for township officers.
1t is supposed that it is not |. \. Ho-
backs presence that is missed in Gem 50
much as his money, as it has been motto
ed that nuts is getting very cheap.
ARKANsAN
\ large surveying force of the |. p. r.
r. arrived at Colby on Tuesday. From
reliable sources we learn that the L. P.
Co. propose to survey and locate railroad
lines from Colby westward to Eustis,
northward to Chardon and eastward to
HoXIe, making this the center of these
lines.
Pursuant to arrangement by the demo
cratic leaders, they are making particu-
larly bitter fight against Treasurer Hovev
and Sheriff Witham. it being understood
early in the day that they were to trade
any of their other candidates off. peddle
any amount Of campaign balderGash, so
they could duly defeat Hovey and With
am.
A young man who believes in self-im
prOvement, having recently married
suggested to his wife that they should
argue some question frankly and fully
every morning in order to learn more of
each other. The first question happened
to be whether woman could be ex-
pected to do without a hat and he
took the affirmative. and when last seen
he had climed up into the hay loft and
was pulling the ladder after him.
There are eleven offices in Thomas
comfy: four of them are filled by old
soldiers-Clerk, Summers; Judge, Lacey.
Coroner. Lutgen; Commissioner. Smith:
That is about 3. per cent of the county
officers. There are 1900 voters in Thomas
Co. 100 of these are soldiers, or less than
nine per cent. That is right. and as it
should be. and yet the democrats are
claiming to care for the old soldier Do
the old soldiers of this county think that
any democratic county provides or cares
for the old soldier?
Without giving names We chronicle
bit of lifes history that lately had for
tunate outcome in our county. Some
eight years ago young couple in India
ma were married. Two years since they
moved to this county. They lived hap
PLY together, the fruits of the marriage
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of July for the first time in their married
life there came into their lives any diff
ference-the cause being one of those
human fiends, ever on the alert to crafty
base passion at the expense of the hap
piness of household. By artful flattery,
long continued. and an advantageous po-
sition as family friend, he pursuaded
the deluded woman to yield to wrong
doing, and the husband. after vain solici-
tations to the mother of his children to
be true to her vows of constancy, was at
last compelled to leave her to the ways
she had chosen. Not so her father and
mother. The father came this week from
his Indiana home, and by kind persuasion
succeeded in inducing the misguided
woman to return to her parental roof,
where We sincerely trust she now is. The
man for whom the woman sacrificed her
family and herself is still in this county,
and except for a scare from the threaten
od DuniShmepf tho lav provides for SIM